The Deadly Effects Of Unmanaged Stress
Stress is not just a major health risk factor it is the cause of all health problems, diseases and weight gain. One study involving more than 2,000 women from their 40's through the menopause transition were asked about unhappy events in their life over the past year.
Even after taking into account the factors that could affect weight gain like exercise routines, diet, smoking, etc. it was found that the more abusive things the women reported, the more weight they gained. The greater the emotional stress, the greater the women's weight.
Chronic Stress Tears Down Your Immune System
Many studies have confirmed the role of stress in disease. If your stress is ongoing, your immune system will not function at its optimal level, leaving you vulnerable to diseases.
The Nature Of Stress
Unresolved stress is essentially the root cause of all disease. Stress itself is not necessarily harmful. Stress can be very good and healthy for you, as long as you can recover from it.
Without the stress from gravity, our bones would lose their calcium and our muscles would become too weak for us to walk.
Lifting weights and exercise is a form of deliberate stress that can be good for you. If you lift a one pound weight to avoid the stress of a heavier weight, you will not gain anything good from such a minor stress.
Stress is more than just a nuisance. It can lead to physical health symptoms including suppressing the immune system and increasing your risk of disease.
Stress can challenge us and cause us to grow and develop. So in a general sense, stress can be appreciated as something from which we can grow and benefit.
The Dark Side of Stress
When stress is unresolved, prolonged or too overwhelming, it can kill you even if you are unaware of it. This is the dark side of stress.
Stress can sometimes kill you instantly if the intensity is high enough as in electrocution, in a car accident or a drug over dose. It can kill you over time if the frequency of the stress is often enough without sufficient time for recovery, such as from the toxic side effects of prescription drugs or industrial toxic chemicals.
When you don't have enough time to recover from a particular stress, it will suppress the immune system and your health and wellness is quickly eroded.
Five Different Sources of Stress
When most people think of stress, they think of psychological stress. But not all stress is psychological (emotional or mental). Most stress is something you are not aware of.
Physical Stress
Physical stress is usually the easiest type of stress to detect. For example, if you wear high heels, or sit for too long without moving, or just do not move around enough you are creating stress. Even if you do not feel it right away or ever. Eventually, you will experience the effects of the stress.
Chemical Stress
Stress can be chemically based, as when you are exposed to a toxin or chemical, from pollutants in the air, water, food.
All of us are exposed daily to chemical stress from the chemicals in our environment. The chemical/pollutant rating in the average American home is five times the level of chemical pollutants in the air outdoors! Testing has shown that all of us have dozens of toxic chemicals in our blood and that the stress and damage from chemicals is the cause of many diseases.
Electromagnetic Stress
Electromagnetic stress bombards us from cell phones, radio, TV, microwaves, cosmic rays, etc. There is electromagnetic stress from computer monitors and TV screens, electrical wires and equipment, fluorescent lighting, etc. Rarely can a person feel the electromagnetic stress but the long term effects can contribute to poor health and an early demise.
Most of this electromagnetic stress is unavoidable; however, there are ways to protect your self with new technologies available on the market.
Deficiency-Based Stress
Stress can be deficiency based. If you do not have enough oxygen, that creates stress! If you do not have enough food or water or sunlight, that creates stress.
99% of people in America do not get enough sunlight. Even though you do not feel this kind of stress, this lack of sunlight leads to a vitamin D deficiency, which is very stressful on the entire body.
Even though most women get far too many calories (energy) from food, most are not getting enough vital nutrients, which create a nutrient deficiency-based stress .
While there are many common nutritional deficiencies, one of the most common and serious nutritional deficiencies is glyconutrients. There is an abundance of two of the eight essential glyconutrients in our diet, but virtually everyone is deficient in six of the eight required for wellness, which causes a tremendous stress in the body, that can lead to virtually any disease.
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The key principle here is that the most vital nutrient is the one that is most missing. Whatever is most missing will cause the greatest stress and thus the greatest problems.
Psychological Stress
Psychological stress is the kind of stress most people think of when they think of stress, even though it is just one of five different kinds of stress.
Most psychological stress is not based on what actually happens to you. It is based on perception or your interpretation of what happens. Once you realize this, you no longer feel like a helpless victim to stress because you realize that it is for the most part, self induced. The stress we create is fully appropriate, such as the stress that we experience if we hear a loved one has been in a serious accident.
Because we create our own emotional stress, we also have the power to either avoid it or to recover from it once it happens. Some people never recover from the stress situation they create because of a bitterness, they fear that a similar situation may re-occur or being unforgiving. Then we worry.
Because stress from any source involves an emotional component, and because everything can affect anything, we will discuss later techniques that can be useful for all kinds of stress, regardless of the source or nature of the stress; however, they will only help you if you use them!
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